MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X ...

An international research team, including Newcastle University’s Dr Adam Ingram, has detected rapidly fluctuating X-rays ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

SpaceX has launched the lunar landers of two aerospace companies from the USA and Japan. One of them is hoping for success at ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers ...